Thanks Rob I'll have to wait until this evening but I'll give it a go.
Cheers Bruce 2009/9/8 Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> > Bruce Beardall wrote: > > Pressed the power button on my Acer Aspire One this morning and the > > button light goes on followed by the whirring of the fan but that's > > it. Not even a BIOS to hack into. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Anyone heard of this happening to other Aspire Ones? > > > > It's currently got Jaunty installed which was running fine - the only > > different thing I've done was play with a live USB Puppy Linux > > yesterday evening. Seems unlikely that that fried everything. > > > > Cheers > > > > Bruce > > > Hi Bruce, > > I've heard about Aspire One machines dying before, IIRC it was something > to do with the BIOS. You could try this - > http://macles.blogspot.com/2008/08/acer-aspire-one-bios-recovery.html > > Worth a shot, and it appears it can be done through Linux (just put the > files on a FAT formatted USB stick). > > Hope this helps. > > Rob > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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